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The Specialized Society The Plight of the Individual in an Age of Individualism
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Fathali M. Moghaddam
Book Code: C5670
ISBN: 0-275-95670-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95670-7
200 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 2/28/1997
List Price: $101.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: This book offers a broad-based critical examination of the consequences--moral, psychological, sociological, educational, and economic--of increasing specialization in today's world. According to the author, we have now reached a stage where the education and professional work of both elite and non-elite groups are so narrowly focused as to diminish both the individual and society. The development of the complete individual has given way to the development of a complete collective, made up of narrowly focused, fragmented individuals. And educators--the very people who should be able to lead us out of this path of increasing specalization--have themselves fallen victim, unable to function outside their own specialized areas of expertise. This controversial work will be of interest to scholars and students in social psychology, philosophy, educational foundations, economics, Third World development, and business--in short, to all thinking members of modern society.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Specialization and Ideals
  • Fachidiot and the Information Revolution
  • The Tyrannical Machine: Specialization in Academia
  • Specialization and Work: Rethinking Economic Limits to Specialization
  • Specialization and Third World Development
  • The Fragmented Community: Specialization and Civic Culture
  • Specialization, Economic Efficiency, and Moral Life
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
LC Card Number: 96-33186
LCC Class: HM136
Dewey Class: 302
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